it is the top of the hour. i'm brianna keilar. moments ago, dr. anthony fauci once again saying he does not expect a vaccine before election day but is encouraged by the milder flu season so far in the southern hemisphere. dr. fauci says the methods used to stop the coronavirus there show promising signs for our own flu season just weeks away. >> what happened in the southern hemisphere happens here, that would be a very good and favorable thing. so, what we think has happened, we think because people have done public health measures to avoid infection with the coronavirus, namely masks, distancing, avoiding crowds, washing hands, we've had the secondary effect that there are less influenza infections. in fact, in australia this year for their influenza season, which goes from april to september, they've had one of

the lowest rates of influenza infection in memory. >> and that is certainly good news. but dr. fauci said it is crucial for people to get their flu vaccinations to avoid a full-blown flu season happening at the same time as this pandemic. >> we do not get control over the coronavirus, you could have several challenges. one is differentiating between covid and flu, because there are medications for flu, and we're getting more and more medications for covid. >> he also said that it is possible that when a vaccine against coronavirus is available, americans will have a choice of more than one. and then this just in. a new study examining the use of 45 million cell phones is making a connection between stay-at-home orders issued in the spring and a drop in coronavirus cases. tell us how this happened,

jacqueline. how did researchers make this connection? >> brianna, researchers did two things. one, they looked at that location data by state in march and april and they looked at what happened after states issued stay-at-home orders, and you'll see here we should have a graphic showing how the movements seen in that location data declined. so you'll see here a graphic for some of the states with the highest infection rates. new york, new jersey, michigan. and you see that drop there in movement that the researchers saw in the location data. so that was one thing that happened, brianna. then the second thing that researchers did, they compared that data. you saw that decline in movement, they compared that with rates of infection by state, and they saw that there were also declines in the rates of coronavirus infections in states after the movement went down and after the stay-at-home

orders were in place. so the bottom line here, this research really suggests that the stay-at-home orders do correlate with a drop in infection rates. and we can infer that that's because there was that drop in people moving around based on the location data. >> it's fascinating. jacqueline, thank you so much for walking us through that. jacqueline howard. a new ad campaign launched today, aiming to recruit more minorities to participate in covid vaccine trials. moderna has warned it may have to slow its trials down if they cannot get enough people of color to participate in time. plus nine of the bioparm suitical companies have made a pledge to stand by science when it comes to approving a vaccine. th this, as the president presses to make one available before the election. for more on the front to find a vaccine, here is cnn's senior medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen. >> brianna, nine pharmaceutical

companies have signed a pledge, saying they won't ask the fda for permission to sell their vaccines unless the data shows that those vaccines are safe and effective. in a way this goes without saying. a company is not supposed to ask permission to put a product on the market unless that product has been shown to be safe and effective. however, the companies might have felt they needed to, because many americans have been hesitant about the vaccine. cnn polling shows that 40% of americans say they won't get the vaccine when it comes out. brianna? >> we know that nursing homes have been hit by -- have been some of the hardest hit by coronavirus. now a lawsuit has been filed against two new jersey facilities. jean casarez is following that for us. >> reporter: in new york, a civil action has been filed in new jersey, hoping to have it certified as a class action against two long-term care facilities and over someone and

two, saying they did not take reasonable precautions to prevent covid from impacting their facilities, that the care, the control and custody of those residents was in the hands of the employees, the staff, the managers and the owners. they specifically discussed a timeline. let's look at that. april 11th. they say the andover police department got word that the facilities were requesting 25 body bags. on april 12th, the andover police department went to the facility and discovered five dead bodies in a small holding room at the facility. on april 13th, they got an anonymous tip that there was a body inside a shed. they went to the facility and they found 12 additional dead bodies in that small holding room. the complaint alleges that family members tried to contact, for weeks, authorities at the long-term care facility to find out what had happened to their loved ones, how they were doing. they couldn't get through to

anyo anyone, and they did not know that many of them had perished. we contacted the owners of the facility, and they said that they, in fact, took the covid threat very seriously. west virginia university's morgantown campus is switching most undergraduate classes to online starting today. this is happening after social media showing several college parties surfaced over the long weekend. there is great concern over the rising number of coronavirus cases on campus. to talk about this, i'm joined now by the vice president and executive dean for health sciences at west virginia university, dr. clay marsh. he's also west virginia's coronavirus czar. thanks for being with us, dr. m marsh. tell us first how many cases does west virginia university have? >> thank you for having me on. so the university has experienced a bit over 500 case

s 360 or so that were validated by testing and another group of tests that were self reported but we had seen an increase in the percent of people being test ed, testing positive and, in part, that was one of the issues that caused us to take a breath and settle things down for going online for a short period of time. >> you were seeing a positivity rate increase. and what was that? >> the positivity rate went from about 1% in the weeks preceding, as we opened, to about 3.2%, and then the most recent week to about 13.8%. >> wow. >> as we saw that increase, and we were also tracking, as part of the state coronavirus approach, an incidence rate map

that color codes, really taken off the harvard globe health institute's map. the only county in west virginia that's red, which is over 25 new cases on a rolling seven-day average corrected per 100,000 population being the county that the university is part of. the other issue is we wanted to make sure that we were able to slow down those cases so that our k through 12 school children would also have a chance to go back to school. >> yeah. so, when you're looking at these west virginia university cases, how many can be traced back to these parties? >> well, we know that the overwhelming majority of positive cases over the last seven days have been from people age 10 to 29 years old. so we are clear that, you know, part of the spread has certainly been from the university

students. and while we know the majority of students are acting very responsibly, and this is no blame to any student who is back at the university, but that there is an overwhelming drive sometimes for young people to want to gather, to connect with each other, to explore, to experience. and during this very unusual time, we really need to reinforce the idea that by protecting yourself is the way that you protect everybody else around you, and you protect the university and the county and the town so that really part of the responsibility of each of our students is to do the right things to reduce covid spread. >> dr. marsh, thank you so much for joining us. dr. clay marsh, we appreciate it. >> thank you. have a good day. >> you too. next, a military widow will join me live. her husband's grave site at arlington national cemetery was captured in this photo with president trump when he

reportedly made disparaging comments about veterans. plus the house launches an investigation into the postmaster general. i'll be speaking to a congressman who grilled louis dejoy as to whether he pressured his employees to donate to republicans. and protesters clashing on streets of oregon. we'll take you there.

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kelly is a retired marine corps general who lost his son in afghanistan in 2010. on memorial day in 2017, he accompanied president trump to his son's grave at arlington national cemetery outside of washington, d.c. according to the atlanta article, trump said to kelly, quote, i don't get it. what was in it for them? if you look closely at one of the photos of trump and kelly on that day, i'll direct you to the lower part of your screen here, you're going to see that they're standing over the grave of corporal derek wyatt, who was also killed in afghanistan in 2010. and when his widow saw this photo just recently, she tweeted, get off my husband's grave. get out of arlington. kate wyatt is with us now. she, herself, is a marine veteran. kate, thank you so much for coming on and speaking about this. it's so important. thank you. >> thank you for having me,

brianna. >> you know, i think it's -- for you, i want to talk about this picture. obviously, it has been many years since you lost your husband. obviously, still incredibly painful. but this was a picture from 2017, this day that trump reportedly asked kelly, what's in it for them, and you had never seen this photo before until recent days. tell us what it was like here when you saw that gravestone of your husband's in this photo. >> yeah. my mom had sent me the photo yesterday and said i'm not sure how we missed this. and i looked at the photo and the first thing that i noticed was derek's name, and his tombstone. it really triggered me as a widow, as a veteran. i absolutely discourage political moves using veterans and who are killed in action and

pows as a leveraging chip, bargaining chip or bid for re-election. i was instantly furious. i reached out to my friends. i reached out to people that i knew who know this part about me. as you can see on my twitter, i jas genuinely upset about the complexities within this picture that many people may not know. >> talk a little bit about that. on its face when you see this picture in 2017 and perhaps it just looks like the president honoring americans who made the ultimate sacrifice, right? he's there in arlington cemetery. >> absolutely. >> but now, having known what he has said about war dead and those who are injured, and those who sign up to serve, what is the context that seeing your

husband in that photo takes on? >> so, the first couple of things i would like to point out is, as you said, look at this, at first glance from an outsider's perspective is that politicians and presidents routinely visit arlington, especially during holidays that are veteran centered like memorial day, veterans day. but when we look at this picture, even though it's in 2017, the idea, the premise of trump using this photo opportunity for political gain is the first thing that i come up to. i look at it. i see my husband's name, which gave me a call to action. and i see general kelly, who is a man i respect highly as not only a marine but a gold star family member, and i understand the powerplay and the manipulation that went into that photo-op. i know of general kelly.

i've not met him personally, so i cannot speak to how he felt, but what i can say is that as a fellow gold star widow, to his family and their gold star son, he was my husband's platoon sergeant. and to use that opportunity of a family grieving as a political photo-op, whether it's in 2017, whether it's in 2020, the same cues are there. the same signs are there that i am desperately pleading to people who are on the fence politically. if you are looking to make a genuine citizen as your right as a voter, as an american citizen, as a veteran, i am pleading with you to look at what is said instead of just what you see. what is being said is things like, he's smart. why did he join the military? things like, i don't get it.

what's in it for them? things like, that general kelly can't handle the pressure of the job when he is a marine corps general. there is no pressure. there is an immense amount of pressure that he has endured and persevered through in his life that trump could never even imagine. so what i see in this picture is a father grieving with a person who is willing to use this opportunity as a photo-op because this was, obviously, staged and obviously planned. and it's not just this politician. however, this politician took a picture with my husband's name and tombstone in it to glorify his position to veterans, and i can't say enough that you can't stand on the graves of better men who fought and died for this country while you rip apart that country with your incompetence and unqualified presence within a position of leadership. gold star family members and the

sacred ground that arlington is, is not a place for election bids. it's a disgrace to those who have served and especially those who have died. >> i think you're a very good person to answer a question. look, the comments that were made were abhorrent. we know that. >> absolutely. >> the idea from a commander and chief that he doesn't understand why people sign up for the military is very hard to understand. on the other hand, i thought maybe you could shed some light for us. we live in a country where most people do not serve and the idea of what people put on the line, like yourself, who is a marine veteran, like your husband, who lost his life in war, it is hard for a lot of americans to understand -- they admire it, right, but do they understand it? why do people sign up and put it all on the line? i want to ask you that, kait, as someone who is a veteran, as someone who gave birth to your

son the day after learning that your husband, his father, was gone. tell us why people put it on the line. why do they say send me? >> brianna, first, i respectfully disagree. i think that even though most americans don't serve in the military, that doesn't mean that they don't serve a higher purpose or a higher power. america is filled with great people who recognize a higher power or a higher service than just serving themselves. serving the public good and progressing our country that we love to its full potential, because america hasn't reached its full potential. we don't need to be great again. we are great. and in order to maintain greatness, any person who has strived for that will tell you that it comes with a certain amount of humbled service that you must give yourself over to a

higher power that you believe is important, or else life can kind of spiral. i would say that personally as a veteran, as a gold star wife, as a mother of a son who is going to have to sign up for the draft when he's 18 and may or may not join the marine corps, i stand behind veterans. i stand behind our service members because i understand that our call to service was from our country at the time that i served was -- there was a war going on. i still answered the call for my nation and their security. and i know there are so many people who can debate the war and debate violence and actions. and those debates aren't what i'm saying. what i'm saying is that to serve something higher than yourself is why most veterans from my view, from my experience, why they join. why they come to the military,

knowing that it's going to be hard, knowing that you're going to be broken down and that when you get out, there's no reliable way for you to get the things that you signed up for and earned at the end point. none of that is the point, though. it's not about the benefits of serving. it's about giving yourself to a higher power. and to me, that higher power was the marine corps. that was the global force for good because my life is centered around the service of something bigger than myself. >> and i think you're right, kait. i think a lot of people do connect with that. i really appreciate you giving us your perspective. it's so important it hear. thank you for your service. thank you for sharing your husband's memory with us and thank you for talking to us today, kait wyatt. >> thank you so much, brianna. have a great day. >> you, too. draft memos from homeland

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deadly violence in the city where 53 people were shot and 8 others killed. >> brianna, whenever we have a warm holiday weekend in chicago, there's a major concern for violence. and on labor day, an 8-year-old girl was killed after gunshots were fired into the suv she was traveling in. she was among the more than 50 shot and eight killed over the course of this holiday weekend on the tail end of a summer where we literally saw weeks in a row at one point where children under the age of 10 were shot and killed and as part of a year here in chicago where murders and shootings are up more than 50% compared to the same time last year. brianna? >> omar, thank you. there were violent clashes over the holiday in oregon state capital between trump supporters and counterprotesters. two people were arrested. josh campbell explains what started the violence. >> brianna, ongoing tensions between pro-trump supporters and

demonstrators in the state of oregon escalating into tension over the long weekend, a large caravan of pro-trump supporters traveled to the state capital in salem, squaring off. the different factions were firing paintball guns at each other, launching projectiles. two people were arrested and charged with assault. the arrests on monday come over a week since another violent encounter here in the city of portland. social media shows pro-trump supporters firing paintball guns into the crowd. one trump supporter was later shot and killed. brianna? >> josh campbell, thank you. a report that singles out white supremacists as the most persistent and lethal threat to the united states. draft of the document show officials predict an elevated threat that will last through early next year. some groups are using the political and racial climate to their advantage. evan perez is with us. our cnn senior justice correspondent. and he's there at the justice

department with this story. you know, evan, tell us normally what an administration would be doing with this news and what we're seeing right now. >> brianna, normally when you have an assessment like this from your homeland security department, this is an annual assessment that they do, they look at the threats that they face. we normally see these threats from foreign terrorist organizations. they make sure that the fbi, homeland security department are all on the same page to try to counteract this threat. that's not what we're seeing from the homeland security department. we're not seeing that from this administration. matter of fact, according to the drafts of this document over at the law affair blog was able to obtain, it appears there's been some softening of the language in some of the drafts that the homeland security is preparing. but you read part of it that

says, essentially, that ideologically motivated lone offenders and small groups will pose the greatest terrorist threat to the homeland through 2021 with white supremacist extremists presenting the most lethal threat. that is the language in the original draft. we're waiting to see whether the homeland security department is going to issue -- what the final product is going to look like whenever that report is finally issued by the homeland security department. >> evan, thank you so much for that update. evan perez. next, president trump saying that he's open to removing his postmaster general, if allegations prove to be true that he pressured his former employees to donate to the gop. one of the members of congress will join us live. trump campaign, going through what was once a billion dollar coin chest. when we started carvana, they told us

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democrats on the house oversight and democrat reform committee want answers again. when he ran the company logistics, he allegedly encouraged donations by employees and then reimbursed them with big bonuses. my next guest is congressman jim cooper. he asked dejoy about contributions to the trump campaign in 2016 when he testified before the house and oversight committee last month. >> did you pay back several of your top executives for contributing to trump's campaign by bonusing or rewarding them? >> that's an outrageous claim, sir, and i resent it. >> i am just asking a question. >> the answer is no.

>> congressman jim cooper joining us now to talk about this, sir. thank you for coming on. that question that you put to louis dejoy, what had you heard in advance? >> well, i had done my homework, as i try to do on every hearing, and also i had an advantage because i have a lot of friends in north carolina. i went to the university of north carolina. and also i had done my senior paper in harvard law school, chiropractics from organizations where the executives didn't really want to contribute. any super reliable mega donor for trump had to really pressure his employees and i just asked him the question whether it was true or not. of course, it looks now like dejoy lied under oath. >> what's also alarming about that is you're saying this is just -- this happens commonly enough that you would ask him

and expect that this is something he would likely have done, or any mega donor would have done. if you think he lied under oath, then what? >> well, it looks like, according to "the washington post," there are four different criminal laws he broke, including perjury. it is wrong. it's illegal to use a strong man to contribute. it violates campaign finance limits. it really subhis own employees. forcing to donate to a candidate who they don't like or support. he was less able to do it at spo but still apparently did it. he may have bought an ambassadorship with this and bought the position of

postmaster general. he really climbed on the back of his employees, forced them to give so he could climb a political ladder. >> he's really been at the center of this controversy over the postal service during the questioning last month on mail slowdowns, you asked him to hand over his communications with white house chief of staff mark meadows, treasury secretary steve mnuchin and president trump. have you gotten those documents? >> no. dejoy was a very uncooperative witness. he really didn't want to be there. i tried to pursue the line of questioning, does he think he's above the law? i established in three different ways he thinks he's above the law. it's a crime to delay the mail. also previous postmaster generals had to pay fines for conflicts of interests and his conflict is 100 times larger than the conflict in the 1990s with another gentleman. dejoy didn't really fear those charges, but he seemed to really

wrestle with the charge that he reimbursed his employees. he knows that's a crime. >> i want to listen to what president trump said about any investigation into the postmaster general just yesterday. >> i think let the investigations go. go ahead, please. >> a follow-up, please, if you don't mind. if it's proven to be a campaign finance scheme, he should lose his job? >> yes if, something can be pro proven that something was wrong. >> good for president trump for throwing dejoy under the bus. his real hope, as i said in my last question to him, i thought his backup plan was probably to be pardoned like roger stone. at the time when people didn't have "the washington post" article in front of them, a lot of folks thought that was reaching. it looks now like dejoy is in serious legal trouble, as he should be. because in several instances, he seems to have broken the law. >> congressman cooper, thank you so much for coming on. we appreciate it.

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president trump makes the campaign stop tonight in the battleground state of north carolina, and the top republican in the county where he's

scheduled to visit is calling on the president to do something he rarely does, wear a mask. the county board of commissioners put it bluntly in the winston-salem, it's been ordered by the governor. when in rome. he is a citizen of the united states but he is also a guest in our county. without a mask, he could get sick. in fact, for months he has mocked joe biden and reporters who wear them. >> your second question was? i couldn't hear you. can you take it off because i cannot hear you. >> i'll just speak louder. >> okay, because you want to be politically correct. >> you're going to have to take that off. how many feet are you away? >> i'll speak a lot louder. >> if you don't take that off, you're very muscled. it would be a lot easier. did you ever see a man that likes a mask as much as him?

then he makes a speech and he always has it -- a lot of times he has it hanging down because, you know what? it gives him a feeling of security. if i were a psychiatrist, right? no, i would say -- i would say this guy has some big issues. >> now with just 56 days until the election, it now appears that the president's big early campaign cash advantage over joe biden has largely evaporated as the election comes here into the homestretch. as his war chest dwindles, the president vowing to dip into his own money and spend whatever it takes to win. >> in the 2016 primaries, i put up a lot of money. if we have to, i will do it here but we have double, maybe triple what we had a number of years ago. four years ago. >> how much are you talking about? >> whatever it takes. we have to win. >> this comes as joe biden's

fund-raising has surged ahead of the trump campaign. now some of those major trump campaign expenses are being questioned. according to "the new york times," the trump campaign has already spent about $800 million of the $1.1 billion that it raised. for example, they spent 350 million on fund-raising operations, more than 100 million on an ad blitz before the rnc convention. 30 million was also spent paying companies to make campaign swag. in doug hye, political columnist and mrit cpolitical commentator. which one of these are expenses or they spent money they shouldn't have. >> anything that would go to a trump property which certainly

this administrator and tion andn have done a great deal. dave is the chairman of the forsythe county republican party and i'm from forsythe, north carolina and while these stories should be troubling for a lot of republicans, there is a big difference for forsythe county for trump this time and last time. it's not four years ago this week i was home in winston salem, stopped by the county headquarters and they didn't have campaign signs or bumper stickers or material that they typically would and the reason they didn't is someone told me at the headquarters, they don't have trump people here. they don't have staff and bodies on the ground. they may not to fill their total campaign goals which they laid out for a few years, but where they are this time versus last time is vastly superior, and they have a robust team and a team on the ground in the way they didn't. i know a lot of people who four years ago, my late father was one of them who lived in winston

salem who said i wish joe biden was running this time. there may be independent voters or soft republicans who look at donald trump differently than they did last time, but the trump campaign will still have a well-organized team on the ground and that will give him if not an advantage going? certainly, what he needs at this point. >> okay. and thank you for that glimpse from on the ground there in your home county. i want to ask you about something that the former head of trump's campaign brad parscale said when it came to the money going out the door and he talked about it going to marketing strategy and going to expenses and he said nothing was done without the approval of the family. so he's saying that the trump family, family members, whoever that may be, right? he's got an umbrella there, knew where all of this money was going. so what does that tell you? >> i think that's probably true. look, this is a family enterprise and in ways that a

lot of republicans if the last name were clinton or obama would be aghast at. republicans have certainly bought in on this and it is also why you don't hear the widespread condemnation that you otherwise would from republicans. i would cite the example when i worked at the republican national committee in 2010 when we had some stupid expenditures that were made, not of the side that we're seeing of the blown money by the trump campaign and republicans were fighting over which one could criticize us the loudest and i suppose this time whether it's just a lot of silence and that also will benefit the trump campaign, but the republican party is baked in on this. it's a family affair to quote the old song and that's not going to change. what brad said rings true to anybody who has been on the inside of this campaign, but even looking from the outside. >> doug, thank you so much for the insight, doug heye, we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> what was supposed to be a moment of excitement for a family has turned into a complete disaster for california. a gender reveal party is behind one of those fires that has now

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25 major wildfires are burning across california forcing thousands to evacuate, and we've still got four months to go in the fire season. fire officials say a gender reveal party that used a smoke-generating pyrotechnic device triggered the el d'orado

fire in san bernardino county. this is now one of the most dangerous fires they have ever seen in that area. we have more from cnn's ryan young at the scene. >> reporter: brianna, fire crews have been working overtime to knock out the fires in california. look at the scorched earth behind me. this is the el dorado fire. this is the one that people across the area are talking about. this is a family that came out here to do a gender reveal party using pyrotechnics and it sparked all of this dry grass. firefighters do have some of it contained and there is concerns about the high wind and the heat that they'll be facing much later. this el dorado fire is 45 minutes outside of l.a., but as they deal with all of the conditions here in california, it could be worse in the next 24 hours or so. brianna? >> ryan young, thank you so much. our special coverage continues now with brooke bolduan. ♪ ♪ hi there, i'm brooke bolduan. you are watching cnn on this

tuesday. thank you so much for being here. today marks the unofficial start of fall and it promises to be a season unlike we have ever seen. we enter this critical season with 11 states seeing an increase in new cases over the past week. 15 are seeing a decline, and nearly half are holding steady, and in terms of deaths in this country, we are approaching the 190,000 mark and there are fears that those numbers will rise significantly in the wake of crowded labor day gatherings. nearly 2 million kids return to school today, but for the vast majority that means a return to online learning. we also have several developments today on the vaccine front. listen to this, nine vaccine makers have signed this unusual safety pledge to uphold, quote, unquote, high ethical standards and this is happening as president trump continues to promote the idea that one could be ready by election day, now exactly eight weeks away. i want you to listen to what dr. anthony fauci said today when